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Universal International Newsreels
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Newsreel
1952
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13:01:20:00 B W 1952 31Mar52 Sd Title: Universal International Newsreel with music under (dirt). 13:01:31:00 B W 1952 Sd Washington, DC Truman Bows Out! Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner. LS of 5,000 democrats at banquet. Seated at main table. Mrs. Truman applauds. At end of speech President Truman says: `Whoever the Democrats nominate for President this year, he will have this record to run upon. I shall not be a candidate for re-election. I have served my country long and, I think, efficiently and honestly. I shall not accept a renomination. I do not think it is my duty to spend another four years in the White House.' Waves to standing crowd applauding. 13:02:55:00 B W 1952 Governor Adlai Stevenson at podium, newsreel cameraman. Stevenson being questioned by reporters: `No, I can only say that I'm a candidate for Governor of Illinois, I have no other ambition and I have said repeatedly for three months (interrupted) my comment is exactly as its always been--no comment! Now would you let me get out, please?' Rhetoric 1952 Democratic Politics Politicans Presidential Candidates Retirement Quitting. 13:03:32:00 B W 1952 Sd Ike Reports - General Gives Annual Statement To NATO. Eisenhower at desk speaking to mics: `A very important, possibly the most important, single encouraging factor of the past year, has been the progress toward centralization and unification in Western Europe. We have had the Schumann Plan, soon to go into operation. We have had evidence of the nations trying to get together thru agriculture and electric power, and similar types of economic activity. Finally we have the European Defense Force, an arrangement whereby German strength can be brought in to the Western Security Organization with full status of respectability for Germany and without endangering the peace of Western Europe. We are being bound together in a single economic, political whole to make the peace of this region secure and safe. 1952 NATO Report Allies Cold War. 13:04:43:00 B W 1952 Sd News In Brief Copenhagen, Denmark [King Gustav and Queen Louise of Sweden Visit]. Greeted in MS by King Frederick and official military. Both couples related by marriage and blood. Cheered through streets. Royalty Diplomacy Scandinavia Celebration. 13:05:38:00 B W 1952 Sd Athens, Greece [King Paul Places Wreath At Tomb of Unknown Soldier on 131st Anniversary of Independence From Turkey]. Military marching up street tanks of NATO pact followed by soldiers on foot and motorcycles. High angle shot. Post-WWII Cold War Ceremony Anti-Communism. 13:06:22:00 B W 1952 Sd Sports London, England [All-England Badminton Championships] Malayan mixed doubles vs Denmark in semi-finals. Malaya goes on to win finals. Badminton Sports 1952. 13:07:02:00 B W 1952 Sd Seattle, Washington [NCAA Basketball Championships]. Kansas wins over St. John's of Brooklyn, New York. Packed gymnasium. Scuffling for the ball. Free throw shooting underhand. Sports 1952 College Basketball. 13:08:23:00 B W 1952 Sd Title: The End (dirty) with music under. 13:08:30:00 B W 1952 Sd Title: A Message From Celeste Holm. 13:08:34:00 B W 1952 Sd 5 people in living room set. Celeste Holm speaking to camera: `I'm Celeste Holm, and here are five friends of mine. We have come together to bring you a message from the American Cancer Society. Cancer strikes one in five, does that mean that one of my friends here will have cancer? It sounds like a grim thought, doesn't it. Well the truth is strange, and very exciting. Cancer already has struck each of these five and each has been cured. Yes, they have all had cancer and been saved. They're proof that we can strike back at cancer. They've been cured. But let's face the fact that we are losing too many people we love to cancer. To save more lives we need your help. Cancer is a major problem and we need your support. Cancer strikes one in five, but we can all strike back. We can strike back by giving, and giving generously, to the Cancer Crusade of the American Cancer Society. Just put your gift in an envelope and mail it to Cancer % of your local post office, just like this. Mail it today, won't you? Please strike back. Give to conquer cancer.' 1952 Charity Trailer Disease Research Fund Raising. 13:09:55:16 B W 1952 Si Title: The foregoing subject has been presented by this theater as a public service. End: 13:10:03:00 13:10:10:00 B W 1952 05May52 Sd Title: Universal International Newsreel with music under. 13:10:21:00 B W 1952 Sd Naval Disaster - 175 Lost As Carrier Plows Into Destroyer. Aircraft carrier USS Wasp after collision with destroyer USS Hobson during maneuvers in mid-Atlantic. Only 61 are saved and transferred to the Wasp which returns to the US with a 75 foot hole in bow. Hobson sank within 4 minutes. View looking forward along carrier and with damage to the destroyed bow visible. Helicopter landing on carrier deck. Injured seen on stretchers. Hobson was cut in two during night maneuvers. 1952 Naval disaster. Cold War. Navy Sailors. Injured. 13:11:18:00 B W 1952 Sd May Day - Reds Around World Riot On Anniversary. Berlin, Germany. Massive crowd in West Sector in anti-communist rally hear Mayor Ernst Reuter (MOS). Seen in MS pointing finger in agitation. 13:11:52:00 B W 1952 (Swish pan) New York City Communists with banners parade to Union Square. banners and placards. Police remove handles of placards. People on sidelines heckle and boo. 13:12:21:00 B W 1952 Swish pan Tokyo, Japan. Speech and listeners. Students chanting, running and police chasing across square in front of Imperial Palace. Beating people. Police hitting with batons. Burning cars in streets. Bloodied students and others with heads wrapped. Line of overturned cars. Police past camera. 3 days after Japan received indpendence. Post-WWII Cold War Anti-Communist Rhetoric Propaganda 1952 Riot Injured Violence Berlin Occupation. 13:14:05:00 B W 1952 Sd News In Brief Alameda, California [Aircraft carrier Antietam raises $15,000 for Shrine Crippled Children's Fund]. Returning from Korea, people waving to ship and from ship. 7 year old polio victim Marcia Owens is given check and she passes it on to Thomas Law of the Shriners. She walks down line and shakes hands with sailors. 1952 Charity Disease Fund Raising Infantile Paralysis. 13:14:52:00 B W 1952 Sd Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky Hill Gail Wins Derby. High angle of people entering, in grandstands. Fur ties and diamond studded teeth. Woman reading Racing Form. Scarf with names of many race tracks woman sipping mint julip. People at betting windows buying tickets. Hill Gail is heavy favorite, walked to starting gate. Horses out of gate and Hannibal lead, Eddie Arcaro riding Hill Gail pulls ahead into 6 length lead seen in slow motion running. Wins by 2 lengths. 1952 Sports Horse Racing Kentucky Derby. 13:16:43:00 B W 1952 Sd Winchester, Virginia Apple Blossom Festival. People sitting on lawn. Bernard Baruch crowns Nina Warren, daughter of California governor Earl Warren, Queen of 25th Shenandoah Valley Apple Blossom Festival on steps of Handley High School Bowl. Boy Scouts with flags and large flags over entrance. Spectators watch. Queen is escorted by Baruch and Mayor William Glass. Queen and princesses walking through orchards in full bloom. Riding on float in parade. Howard Keel is Grand Marshall of parade and waves from back of convertible. Other floats. 1952 Americana celebration. Movie Actor. Publicity. 13:18:03:00 B W 1952 Sd Title: The End (dirt) with music under. End: 13:18:10:00 13:18:16:00 B W 1952 02Jun52 Title: Universal International Newsreel with music under. 13:18:27:00 B W 1952 Sd Washington, DC Ike Returns - President Welcomes General To Capitol. General Eisenhower and wife off plane greeted by military officials, shaking hands down line and kisses his mother-in-law. Arrives at White House and leaves limousine. Photographers taking pictures as Ike shakes hands with President Truman. Pose with Secretary Levitt, General Bradley, and Army Secretary Pace. Military Arrival Ceremony NATO Cold War. 13:19:24:00 B W 1952 Sd Koje Island, Korea Koje Riots - Defiant Reds Drill In POW Compounds. Prisoners drill with dummy guns and march while watched by guards. Canadian troops arrive aboard LST 535 and briefed on mission by Gen. Boatner, commanding officer. Guards around camp. Tanks circled around compound and local people are evacuated by US Army trucks. 1952 Korean War Prisoners of War Communist POWs. Cold War Anti-communist Propaganda. 13:20:33:00 B W 1952 Sd Langley Field, Virginia NATO Airpower - New Units Assemble For European Duty. View over airfield of jet fighters and bombers of 49th Air Division, ground shots as planes are checked and fueled. Pilots inspect life boat and survival gear along with rescue equipment. Pilots taxiing and AVs of planes in air. Jets fly over German airbase. Cold War Air Force Maneuvers. 1952. 13:21:32:00 B W 1952 Sd News In Brief Yonne River, France [Collapsed Dam seen with water running through. Canal dry with barges sitting. Wife and captain sit and wait. Small water in bottom of canal. Gag Oddities Family. 1952. 13:22:13:00 B W 1952 Sd Callender, Ontario, Canada [Dionne Quintuplets Graduating] 18 years old and graduating from high school receiving diplomas. Pose in white gowns. 1952. Multiples. 13:22:50:00 B W 1952 Sd Palm Springs Airport, California [Tiniest Plane] 8 foot long plane arrives, pulled off trailer. Test pilot Bob Starr gets in and takes off in small biplane and flies low over runway at 150 mph. 1952 Aviation Invention Oddities Experimental Aircraft Test Flight. 13:23:29:00 B W 1952 Sd Indianapolis, Indiana 500-Mile Classic - 22-Year-Old Wins At Indianapolis. High angle of cars tuned and pushed to starting line. Ferrari seen in CU. Cars begin POV from starter car car off track and cars past grandstand over bricks. Men with binoculars. Bill Vukovitch hits wall with 8 laps remaining. Winner Troy Ruttman gets flagged and drives up to camera. Seen in MCU. Winning speed 129 mph. Sports Automobile Racing 1952 Indy 500. End: 13:24:57:00. 13:25:11:00 B W 1952 16Jun52 Sd Title: Universal International News with music under 13:25:22:00 B W 1952 Sd Groton, Connecticut Atom Sub - President Officiates At Laying Of Keel. LS of VIPS on viewing stand. President Truman walks up to cradle and inscribes initials with chalk on steel plate and burned into hull by welder. Flag flying. 1952 Ceremony Cold War Atomic Submarine Nautilus Navy. 13:26:13:00 B W 1952 Sd Koje Island, Korea Koje Mop-Up - Paratroopers Finally Subdue Riotous Reds. LS over barracks as tear gas is thrown in along with flash grenades. Burning illegal barracks. POWs taken out with hands up. Wounded carried out. Anti-communism Cold War Korean War Rioting. General Boatner supervising 1952. 13:27:13:00 B W 1952 Sd News In Brief [Guided Missile Hits Reds] Tarzon Guided bomb released from B-29 bomber in test in US and then used in Korea. Soldiers move it in holder. Mounted onto B-29, released and seen following road, explosion in bulls-eye. Military technology 1952 testing weapons. 13:28:10:00 B W 1952 Sd Long Island, New York [Rail Strike Hits Commuter]. CU of sign announcing strike. CU Journal American headline: `Strike Ties Up LIRR!' Union Hall Street station. Empty tracks people in line boarding buses. MS Traffic slowly moving on roads. Commuter railroad station empty. Labor Union Strkes commuters highways transportation. Automobiles 1952. 13:28:54:00 B W 1952 Sd Portland, Oregon [44th Annual Rose Parade] Floats through streets Queen on float floats depicting childhood memories past buildings and people along streets. Bathing beauties on floral floats. 1952 Rose Festival Americana Celebration. 13:29:44:00 B W 1952 Sd Sports New York City [25,000 at Yankee Stadium Soccer Match] Tottenham Hotspurs and Manchester Uniteds play during tour of US and Canada. Good MCUs and MSs. Hotspurs win 7 to 1. 1952 Soccer Exhibition Game. 13:30:43:00 B W 1952 Sd Portland, Oregon [Collegiate Rodeo Championships]. 66 cowboys and 9 cowgirls. Rose festival rodeo sponsored by Oregon State College. Many falls. Bull dogging, bull riding, bucking horses throw riders. Sports 1952 Amateur Rodeo. End: 13:31:55:00 13:32:09:00 B W 1952 03Jul52 Sd Title: Universal International Newsreel with music under. 13:32:19:00 B W 1952 Sd Newark, Delaware New Tank - Army Unveils First M-48 Medium Tank. Patton 48 medium tank on proving grounds moving at speed. Tank spinning on track in circles. Over concrete ditch 8 feet across. Over rutted test section. Military equipment testing 1952 army weapons. Cold War. 13:33:23:00 B W 1952 Sd Stanley Park Zoo, Vancouver, Canada [Monkey Moving Day] Monkeys running around cage as animal keepers try to net them. Put into cages and moved into new summer playground with ropes, artificial tree and metal poles. Monkeys playing. 1952 Zoological Gardens Trauma Animals Fear. 13:34:18:00 B W 1952 Sd Hot Springs, Arkansas [Twin Wedding] Identical twin brides and flower girls past camera and into Baptist Church. Margaret and Elizabeth Finch are brides. Prospective bridegrooms and others at the wedding are twins as well. Posing and kissing in front of church. Oddities Stunts Gags. Multiples. 13:35:01:00 B W 1952 Sd Venezuela Road - $60,000,000 Spent On New Highway. AV of highway from Caracas to Caribbean engineers with plans and pencil. Large dynamite explosion to excavate cut. Workmen in MCU LS of machines working and bulldozers pushing dirt. Equipent down steep slopes. Very deep cut seen. Earthmoving equipment road building. 1952 Highway Construction Government Works. 13:36:19:00 B W 1952 Sd New York City Shipboard Fashions. Fashions by Nat Kaplan modeled on board superliner United States. Various vacation fashions modeled in LS & MCU. Artificial flowers on hat open cut hat worn. Models playing shuffleboard in large oversized sunglasses. 1952 Fashion Oddities Gags. 13:37:44:00 B W 1952 Sd New York City Olympic Diving Tryouts. Olympic flag raised over Astoria Park pool by Gertrude Ederle before finals of 3 meter diving trials. Olympic Champion, and now Army Major, Sammy Lee demonstrates. Skippy Browning of Texas University wins Miller Anderson, Ohio State Bob Clotworthy of Ohio State. Various dives shown. MCU of 3 divers. Amateur Sports Divers 1952 Summer Olympic Trials. End: 13:39:02 13:39:15:00 B W 1952 17Jul52 Sd Title: Universal International Newsreel with music under. 13:39:25:00 B W 1952 Sd Chicago, Illinois Democrats - Curtain Rises On Chicago Convention. Men looking at building plans others carry photographs of past Democratic Presidents. Kefauver and wife arrive on chartered plane Richard Russell arrives to larger crowd Woman wearing buttons for Averill Harriman standing next to Franklin Roosevelt, Jr. Picture of Gov. Adlai Stevenson and ribbons stacked. 1952 Political Democratic Convention Politics Presidential Candidates. 13:40:27:00 B W 1952 Sd New York City Atlantic Queen - United States Sets East-West Record. LS 2-stack liner underway CU of signal flags. past Ambrose Light Ship after 3 days, 12 hours, cutting 9 hours from Queen Mary's previous record. People waving on liner deck fireboats greeting tugs towing to United States Lines pier. Captain Harry Manning shaking hands with President Franklin of United States Lines and Grover Whelan. Ship docked. 1952. 13:41:29:00 B W 1952 Sd North Korea Air Strike - 500 Planes Blast Red Korean Power Plants. Tanks under camouflage with marines & ROK unit looking at map. Firing large artillery and machine guns and bazookas. Tanks moving up followed by flamethrowers and burn brush on hillside. AVs of planes in flight, gun cameras firing rockets bombs exploding on ground and smoke rising. Korean War 1952 Fighting. 13:43:04:00 B W 1952 Sd Helsinki, Finland Olympics - Helsinki Makes Ready For Athletes of World. Statue in front of buildings. Railroad station and trains seen with passengers. High angle of city. USA team walking toward camera and posing in suburb. Eating at long tables. USSR participants & Russians at their own camp with guarded entry check point seen. Socialist athletes posing others posing in blazers and MCU. Flags of many nations flying. Sports 1952 Summer Olympics Amateur Athletics Athletes Cold War. 13:44:29:00 B W 1952 Sd Vancouver, Canada kiddy Korner Small children driving tiny electric cars watched by a policeman. Policeman checks license of young girl. Oddities Gags Automobile safety school. 13:45:17:00 B W 1952 Sd Paris, France [7 Month Old Gymnastics Trainee] Man massaging baby, walks 7 month old baby across floor. Held up by father and baby hangs and swings from rings. Balances on hand. Smiling CU of child. Stunts Oddities Gags. 13:46:16:00 B W 1952 Sd Title: The End with music under. End: 13:46:21:00 13:46:29:00 B W 1952 21Jul52 Sd Title: Universal International Newsreel with music under (dirty). 13:46:39:00 B W 1952 Sd Helsinki, Finland Olympic Opening. People across to stadium. Finnish President walking to camera tipping hat to crowd in rain. Teams from Greece, Canada, Russian team first since Czar's. US team. Pigeons released. Paavo Nurmi runs in with torch and lights flame of the 15th modern Olympiad. People in wheel chairs watching from side of stadium. Olympic flags. Amateur Sports 1952 Summer Olympics. 13:48:33:00 B W 1952 Sd Sea Tragedy - Four Die As Freighter Becomes Flaming Torch. Norwegian freighter Black Gull bound for New York becomes a torch as 500 tons of naphthalene catch fire 65 miles off Long Island. 4 crewmen die but 45 are rescued. Burning ship from air, listing heavily. AV of Montauk Point. Rescue boat. More AVs from camera plane. Burning Ship 1952 Explosion aftermath Transportation Dangerous Cargo Petroleum. 13:49:28:00 B W 1952 Sd Chicago, Illinois Democrats - Choice Wide Open As Convention Starts. People outside convention hall and bunting hanging. Averill Harriman buttons Kefauver coonskin hat worn by woman going into hall. Barkley placards. Delegates going in. Press room with reporters at typewriters and telephones. CU of signs for Minnesota, California, Tennessee, New York, Texas, Pennsylvania. James Farley waves Emelia Edwards in MCU as possible Vice President choice. South Carolina signs with Governor James Byrnes. Governor Williams of Michigan. Congressman Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. represents his family. LS of floor of convention. Four men under Kansas sign Man holding Arizona sign. Three women with buttons & pennant for Barkley. Puerto Rico woman and man with sign. Contested delegations from Texas and from Mississippi. Frank McKinney calls convention to order. At mic: `The 31st National Convention of the Democratic Party will now come to order.' Keynote speaker Governor Dever of Massachussetts: `Mr. Chairman, delegates, my fellow Americans. The issue is to insure the rate of peace. One thing alone threatens our tranquility the menace is Communism, both at home and abroad. To contain it abroad we must be strong, and we must have strong and friendly allies. To eradicate it at home we must continue the fight to eliminate the economic injustice, social intolerance, and racial bigotry on which communism breeds. The containment of that menace abroad and its eradication at home is the only road to peace the only means of preventing WWIII the only way to meet the challenge of our times. The Democratic Party alone can meet that challenge. During the next four years America needs a Democratic President, loyal to the principals and policies, foreign and domestic, of the New Deal of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and of the Fair Deal of Harry S. Truman. Applause. LS of floor of convention. Cold War 1952 Democratic Convention Rhetoric Opening Speech Anti-Communist Red Menace. End: 13:53:02:00 13:53:13:00 B W 1952 24Jul52 Sd Title: Universal International Newsreel with music under (dirty). 13:53:23:00 B W 1952 Sd Helsinki, Finland Olympics - Records Broken In World Game Events. Crowds in stadium start of 10,000 meter run. Announcer with mic and headset in MCU. Czech runner Emil Zatopek breaking tape and winning for second time. Zatopek wins 5,000 meters for second gold medal. 400 meter hurdles lead by Charlie Moore of USA Russian tries to pass but Moore wins, setting new record. Reporters with typewriters in stands. 100 meter dash with four runners very close. Photo finish picture shows US the winner. Winner on stand. 1952 Summer Olympics Track meet Amateur Athletics. 13:55:17:00 B W 1952 Sd Tehachapi, California Earthquake - 11 Perish in South California Temblor (sic). Men walking through street past collapsed building with bricks in streets. Removing material. Collapsed houses. Flattened cars. 1952 Natural disaster. 13:56:18:00 B W 1952 Sd Chicago, Illinois Democratic Convention. Large crowd from above CU of cigar smoker delegates talking, caucuses on floor with signs of states. Texas disputed group. People speaking to groups. Eleanor Roosevelt arrives and is cheered. She waves from podium and receives 15 minute ovation receives a scroll from Mrs. Edwards as an American Citizen of the World. LS of cheering crowd. 1952 Chicago Democratic Convention Politics Delegations Politicians. 13:57:30:00 B W 1952 Sd Hollywood, California Buy Bonds. Humphrey Bogart lights cigarette, gets up and speaks to the camera: `My name is Humphrey Bogart in case there are those of you in the audience who are too young or too old to know who I am. I've been asked by the Treasury Department to tell you about the improved E Bond in a way I suppose I'm a sort of a salesman although I personally don't think that E Bonds need selling, I think you should be knocking at Uncle Sam's door to buy them. You see I'm not selling you used cars, television sets, sewing machines, etc. etc. You see I'm selling you a stake in the future of America, the safety and security of all of us. When the Treasury Department called me I asked them what's the difference between an E Bond and any other kind of defense bond. Now if you'll listen to me for a moment I'll let you in on something. This new and improved E Bond pays you 3%. If you hold it full-time, 10 years after maturity you'll get back twice as much money, or almost twice as much money as you put into it. In other words you almost double your dough. I think that's a pretty fair proposition. The United States Government stands squarely behind these bonds, now even better.' Trailer, Government Savings Bonds. E Series E Type. 1952 Investment Economics Cold War Movie Actor Motion Picture Actor. 13:58:43:00 B W 1952 Sd Chicago, Illinois Stevenson Nominated! Floor with balloons. Walter George enters name of Russell for nomination as President MCU of women in bunting, hats and placards. Governor Browning of Tennessee offers name of Estes Kefauver. Floor demonstration for Kefauver with signs, balloons and cheering. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. gives nominating speech for Averill Harriman, Large floor demonstration from above and from floor level in MCU. Cheering woman. Governor Shrinker of Indiana nominates Governor Adlai Stevenson of Illinois and floor really goes wild. Stevenson waves from mic. Signs America needs Stevenson, man cheering, people moving through crowd. 1952 Democratic Convention Presidential Candidates Democrats Celebration Politics Politicans. End: 14:01:16:00 14:01:26:00 B W 1952 28Jul52 Sd Title: Universal International Newsreel with sound under. 14:01:36:00 B W 1952 Sd Chicago, Illinois Campaign News - Democrats Name Ticket As Ike Plans Strategy. Pan over floor of 31st Democratic Convention. Fire on floor of convention with fireman jumping around. Man standing with mouth open. Rayburn announces Governor Stevenson as nominee by acclimation. President Truman walks him to speakers rostrum. Senator Sparkman stands beside Stevenson and lift arms. Signs for Sparkman. Crowd on floor. 1952 Democratic Convention. Gag Oddities Dumbstruck Awe Surprise Politicians Politics. Swish pan to: 14:03:31:00 B W 1952 Sd Colorado [Eisenhower Plans Strategy] Putting on fishing boots and with Richard Nixon standing in front of log cabin shows him how to fly fish. Ike almost hooks Nixon's ear Nixon in stream casting. Ike putting bait on hook alongside river. The two sit on bench and talk. Nixon: `I had an opportunity when I was in Washington during the past two weeks to talk to a number of Congressmen and Senators and also I had the chance to look over the mail and I have been tremendously gratified by the spirit of unity that has developed in the Republican Party. We are going to have a united front this November that is going to assure the victory for General Eisenhower that the country needs.' Eisenhower: `Victory for the Party, and what is more important, for the country my boy.' 1952 Presidential Campaign Candidates Recreation. 14:04:46:00 B W 1952 Sd Pyongyang, Korea Korean Front - Stars Entertain As B-29's Blast Reds. B-29s takes off over camera. In flight, dropping bombs, explosions and much smoke. Swish pan to CU of GIs watching Hollywood USO show One marine sings a duet with Joy Windsor and gets big kiss. Acrobat playing role of drunk. Rain as men applaud. 1952 Korean War. Air Force Bombing Entertainers. 14:06:10:00 B W 1952 Sd Helsinki, Finland Olympics - US Dominates Track And Field Events. Full stadium women's 80 meter hurdles won by Shirley Strickland of Australia USSR woman
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